The Pac-12 era is now over.
Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC are officially Big Ten teams as of Monday, while Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah are heading to the Big 12. Cal and Stanford are now also somehow members of the ACC, and Oregon State and Washington State are the last two teams standing.
July 1 is yet another milestone in the massively shifting college sports landscape. We’ve all known for months that the Pac-12 as we know it was disintegrating. But there’s still something profoundly sad about that finally becoming a reality.
The league that billed itself the “Conference of Champions” was an incredibly fun league even if it was marred by dysfunction and a lack of College Football Playoff appearances.